For film buffs, Breakfast at Tiffanys and Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly are synonymous; but Truman Capote, who wrote the novella on which the 1966 movie was based, loathed her performance, thinking her violently psychologically miscast. He had wanted Marilyn Monroe to play the high-class call-girl. Hepburn sanitized Holly’s promiscuity.
The multi-award winning singer Pixie Lott, making her play debut, naturally wants to make the role her own; but she is defeated by Richard Greenberg’s bitty adaptation, which moves from one dead scene to the next